The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The North Wind and the South Wind, sentence 29
On the second day, Shó-kee-ah used more powerful incantations, and made a deep snow to cover the world; but again Mí-o-chin brought his South Wind and chased away the snow.
Who acts: Shó, Mí · What happens: use, make, cover, bring, chase away · To what, where: powerful incantations, deep snow, world, South Wind, snow
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The North Wind and the South Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shó, Mí), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | Shó | Shó | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 used | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shó | punct |
| 8 | kee | kee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shó | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shó | punct |
| 10 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 11 used | discourse |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 powerful | advmod |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 incantations | amod |
| 14 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snow | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 snow | amod |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cover | mark |
| 22 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cover | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 brought | cc |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 brought | advmod |
| 28 | Mí | Mí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 chin | punct |
| 30 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 32 chin | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 o | punct |
| 32 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Mí | appos |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | parataxis |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Wind | nmod:poss |
| 35 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Wind | compound |
| 36 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 chased | cc |
| 38 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 brought | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADP | _ | 38 chased | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 snow | det |
| 41 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chased | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | Shó | powerful incantations | day | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | Shó not said here | a deep snow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snow=Product | ||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | Shó not said here | the world | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | Mí | Mí's South Wind | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wind=Destination | |||
| 5 | chase away | participle | Mí not said here | the snow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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